Lingwu

See also: língwù, lǐngwù, and Língwǔ

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 靈武／灵武 (Língwǔ).

Proper noun

Lingwu

1. A county-level city in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China.
   • 1978 January 27 [1978 January 27], “Grain Production, Bank Savings Increase in Ningsia”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 19, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1:

     Savings deposits of some of the commune peasants in Wuchung and Lingwu counties, where people of the Hui nationality live in compact communities, increased by more than 30 percent and 100 percent respectively last year. In four people's communes in Lingwu County where 92 percent of the population is of the Hui nationality, total grain output last year topped 1976 by 70 percent and considerable progress was made in the diverisfied^{[sic – meaning diversified]} economy.

   • 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China‎^[2], Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

     The stone implements unearthed along with Hetao Man are very small in size. In spite of some similarities, they are markedly different from those found at Shuidonggou in Lingwu County in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Therefore, the stone implements of these two sites should not be classified together into a “Hetao Culture” (Ordos Culture).

   • 1987, Robin Hanbury-Tenison, “Between the Desert and the Green”, in A Ride Along the Great Wall‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:

     Our hardest day now lay ahead. The road made a big detour to the south via Lingwu, crossing the Yellow River by the only bridge for many miles before turning north again for Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

   • 1991, Dru C. Gladney, Muslim Chinese‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:

     Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).

   • 2018 March 21, Wee Kek Koon, “What happened to China’s early Christians and why did the Nestorian doctrine die out?”, in South China Morning Post‎^[5], archived from the original on 24 March 2018:

     For the next two centuries, Nestorian Christianity, known as Jing Jiao (“Resplendent Religion”) in Chinese, spread within the empire, with churches in cities as far apart as Lingwu (in present-day Ningxia), Chengdu and Guangzhou.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lingwu.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈武／灵武 (zh) (Língwǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lingwu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1746, column 1